Last week Reverend Mpho Tutu came to London to promote ‘The Book of Forgiving’ which she co-authored with her father Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
BOOK REVIEW | Zimbabwean writer Novuyo Rose Tshuma has set her first collection of short stories in Bulawayo and Johannesburg.
Zelda la Grange will launch her new book ‘Good Morning, Mr Mandela’ on Tuesday 24 June at the London School of Economics. ‘Good Morning, Mr Mandela’Â is the extraordinary story of how a young woman had her life and everything she once believed in transformed by the greatest man of her time.
Reverend Mpho Tutu, the daughter of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, will visit the UK this week to launch their new book about forgiveness.
South Africa’s Diane Awerbuck and Zimbabwe’s Tendai Huchu are two of the writers shortlisted for this year’s Caine Prize for African Writing. Londoners will have several opportunities to hear them read from their short stories in London
Dominique Valente chats to Sunday Times humour columnist and bestselling author Paige Nick about writing, her collaborative choose your own adventure erotica novels, and why we should all laugh until Oros comes out of our noses, even when we aren’t drinking Oros …
‘Young Man With A Red Tie’ is a gripping memoir that reconstructs how the author Bob Hepple was caught up in the revolution planned by Nelson Mandela and his comrades in the ANC and Communist Party in the period from 1960 to 1963.
Radio host Eusebius McKaiser delves into the question of whether the Democratic Alliance are a genuine voting alternative to the ANC.
South Africa’s Diane Awerbuck and Zimbabwe’s Tendai Huchu are two of the five writers shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing.
Betrayal, remorse, obsession and torment, with the odd flash of wit and the power of circumstance, leap off the pages in this epic novel set in England and South Africa.
“Maps never bleed” may not be true in this instance as through the eyes and words of Mark Gevisser, every road becomes an artery, pulsing with life blood, pumping to that unmistakeable beat of the heart of South Africa.
The judging panel for this year’s Caine Prize for African creative writing includes South African-born novelist and playwright Gillian Slovo and Zimbabwean journalist Percy Zvomuya.
Leading South African author and journalist Mark Gevisser’s new book ‘Dispatcher’ is about memory, identity and his intense personal relationship with his home-town, Johannesburg.
‘Ad & Wal’ is the story of an ordinary couple — campaigners, fighters, exiles — who did extraordinary things despite the odds.
I recently spent some time reading a book that I was drawn into after the first few paragraphs. The opening pages felt more like I was having a conversation than reading a work of fiction, and by the end I was left wanting more than what I had in front of me.
Evan Bartlett reviews the biography of Neil Aggett, a 28-year-old doctor and trade unionist who was the first white person to die in the custody of the apartheid regime’s security police.
A new biography restores Steve Biko in the public memory as a outstanding intellectual revolutionary who elevated the consciousness of South Africans through his politics of psychological empowerment.
A biography of legendary anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman by her close friend, Lord Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to South Africa, is being published in the UK by Biteback Publishing Ltd and in South Africa by Jonathan Ball.
Every child wants to become Mowgli and live in The Jungle Book with friends like Baloo and Bagheera, and one little girl lived that very dream.
Eve Hemming moved from South Africa to New Zealand in 2008. While dealing with the grief of saying farewell to her homeland and falling in love with her new land, she began writing ‘Scatterlings’
‘Plight of the Rhino’, the first anthology of short stories from Springbok Publications, recently launched in London. At least £1 from every book sold will go towards the charity Save the Rhino International.
Jane Raphaely brought world-class writing and glossy advertisements to a rather restricted and parochial South African audience and influenced younger editors and entrepreneurs like Khanyi Dhlomo
NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel ‘We Need New Names’ has been shortlisted for the £50,000 literary award from the most ‘wonderfully’ diverse longlist
Karin Brynard het ‘n talent om van die lekkerste van woorde te neem en soos ‘hundreds en thousands’ hul met opwinding op die koek uitstrooi.
Set in modern-day Cape Town, Charlie Human’s debut novel ‘Apocalypse Now Now’ will grab you by the hair and drag you headlong into a world you have never seen before.